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Service Broker custom task for SSIS
The last week we started to versioning Service Broker(SSB) Enhancements with the RTM bits of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Today we uploaded the new version of the SSIS custom task for Service Broker to the SSB Enhancements workspace.
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Clemens Vasters is joining Microsoft
Well, those are great news for the WCF team. Clemens Vasters is joining Microsoft.
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EJB 3
JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that implementations should start to solidify now, although minor changes can still occur.
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CS 2.0
Rob Howard announced the new Beta version of Community Server 2.0 is now available. Congrats to Rob, Jason, Scott and the rest of the Community Server team!!
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WSDM implementation
IBM has released a new Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) development kit which includes the IBM Autonomic Manageability Endpoint Builder and Endpoint Simulator. The builder tool allows developers to build WSDM interfaces for resources such as servers, applications and printers while the simulator tool creates a WSDM-based testing environment.
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Miracles of a snow storm
My friend and also TwoConnect solution architect Ben Elliott has chosen the night of the snow storm in
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REST/POX with Indigo
Clemens Vasters has a great post about how to implement REST/POX with Indigo.
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Coral Project
MindReef announced project Coral!!. Congrats to the MR guys, great job.
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SDO & SCA
Some of the most important J2EE vendors delivered the new version of the Service Data Objects (SDO) spec and the first version of Service Component Architecture (SCA). SDO is a great standard to abstract physical data sources and is the heart of J2EE products like BEA Aqualogic Data Services. About SCA I do like some concepts (like bindings and metadata representation) that are required in order to simplify the J2EE SOA approaches but on the other hand I truly think that other concepts present in the specification are not in sync with some of the basics SOA principles. I will be posting about this shortly.
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WS-CDL implementation
Finally we have an implementation of the WS-CDL:
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J-Integra
Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. announces the launch of J-Integra Espresso version 1.1, the latest edition of their middleware solution for Java, CORBA and Microsoft applications. J-Integra Espresso v1.1 features enhanced integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and support for the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
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New TwoConnector
I am really happy to announce that Ned Rynearson one of the co-authors the BizTalk 2002 reference book has officially joined Two Connect as a Senior consultant. Ned has been involved with BizTalk since the early 2000-2002 version. Welcome aboard!!.
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XML Interchange Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group. Robin Berjon (Expway) and Oliver Goldman (Adobe Systems) are Chairs. The group's objective is to define an alternative encoding of the XML Information Set that addresses the requirements identified in the work of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group, while maintaining the existing interoperability between XML specifications. The group is chartered through December 2007.
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Corrections
I made some corrections to my last article about the Transaction Service in Windows Workflow Foundation. Check the new version here…
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WebMethods news
Better late than never: WebMethods includes a rule engine in fabric.
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WinFS
Nice comment about WinFS synchronization
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Windows Workflow Runtime Service: The Transaction Service
By Jesus Rodriguez
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Demystifying SAML
Harold Lockhart has written an excellent article about the core SAML concepts.
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CS Developer Competition prizes
The last Sunday took place the finalist’s dinner for the Microsoft Connected Systems Developer Competition in
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WS-Security interoperability
Michele Leroux Bustamante has wrote a super cool article about WS-Security interoperability between BEA WebLogic and WSE.
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WS-Polling
The last week I spent some time reading and chatting with some friends about the possible scenarios for WS-Polling. This interesting article from Doug Davis is really self explanatory about this topic.
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WS-SX
OASIS have announced the Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee that brings together users and vendors to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Trust. Members of the OASIS international standards consortium announced plans to define extensions to the WS-Security OASIS Standard that will enable the trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages and will define security policies that govern the formats and tokens of those messages. The new OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee brings together users and vendors in an open process to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Trust. Other contributions and changes to these input documents will be accepted for consideration without prejudice or restriction and evaluated based on technical merit.
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Apache Pluto released
The Apache Pluto Community has announced the first general availability release of Apache Pluto - Pluto 1.0.1. Pluto is the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168). Pluto 1.0.1 contains fixes for nearly all reported bugs reported against the various release candidates. It also includes support for the hot deployment of Portlets which are deployed through the Administrative portlets provided with the Portal Driver. Pluto 1.0.1 distributions can be accessed from http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi Documentation can be found at the Apache Pluto web site: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/ If you're doing portlet development, is Pluto your development environment? If not, why not?
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SPS SP2
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Portal Server. This service pack includes updates contained in prior hot fixes as well as Service Pack 1 for issues such as security, stability and performance. This version also adds support for running on 64-bit servers, IP bound virtual servers, and SQL Server 2005.
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IBM news
IBM announces the news plans around the recent Data Power acquisition.
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Mobile Best Practices
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BPEL-SPE
A technical white paper "WS-BPEL Extension for Sub-Processes: BPEL-SPE" published by IBM and SAP proposes an extension to WS-BPEL that allows for the definition of sub-processes that can be reused within the same or across multiple WS-BPEL processes. A formal language specification defining the precise syntax and semantics of the BPEL-SPE extension is planned for later release. WS-BPEL v2.0 defines a model for web services composition through aggregation.
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WF Business Rules
Charles Young has wrote a super cool article about the differences between the Business Rule Engine in BizTalk and the Business Rules features in Windows Workflow Foundation
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Web Service Transaction Technical Committee
The new OASIS Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) Technical Committee brings together users and vendors in an open process to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination), Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction), and Business Activity Framework (WS-BusinessActivity). Other contributions and changes to these input documents will be accepted for consideration without prejudice or restriction and evaluated based on technical merit.
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BPI & Workflow Conferece
Last week I assisted to the workflow conference at Redmon. Mike Woods and the MS folks did a great job organizing the event. Great sessions, nice talks.
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Window Workflow Foundation Runtime Services: The Persistence Service
This is the first of a series of brief articles intended to illustrate the functionality and customizability of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Runtime Services. This first article is focused on describing WF’s persistence service and ways to customize it. Upcoming articles will cover other WF services such as tracking, communication, timer, and transactions to name a few. The article assumes that you are familiar with WF fundamentals. For an introduction to the WF basics, you can read this interesting article from David Chappell.
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Web Services Transactions
Manish Verma wrotes a nice article about web Services Transaction technologies using Arjuna XML.
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Service Broker UDDI Publisher
Service Broker UDDI Publisher (SSB Publisher) is one of the components provided in Service Broker (SSB) Enhancements that allows to add discovery capabilities to SSB Services.
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BEA news
At its annual users’ conference, BEA Systems Inc. unveiled a Real Time Edition of its WebLogic application server and a WebLogic server enterprise-grade kernel. BEA also plans to provide more application-level detail through WebLogic Server 9.0 and extended support for open source Java frameworks, including Eclipse Web Tools, Apache Beehive and Apache XML Beans.
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Mediation
Ronan Bradley wrote an interesting reflection about the different types of mediation in the ESB world
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Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server
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WS-Management
Microsoft and eleven industry partners have submitted the Web Services for Management (WS-Management) specification (Version 1, Edition 3) to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for "further refinement and finalization as a Web services-based management standard."
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Oracle news
Oracle has released a new version of its Application Service with special emphasis in the SOA technologies:
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Service Broker Enhacements
Yesterday finally I uploaded Service Broker (SSB) Enhancements to GotDotNet to make it available to the .NET developer’s community. SSB Enhancements is the result of a hard work and a close collaboration with some Microsoft folks that contributes wit a lot of suggestions and feedback. In this first release we include the following products:
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XSLT, XQuery, XPath news
The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The goal of this release is to permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
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New integration technologies
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Service Broker Enhancements
Well, I am back from a one month of silence in my Weblog. I had different arguments for that. I have been working in a project with Microsoft Consulting Services that kept me busy a great part of the time. But the main reason for my non-prolific blogging is that I have been working with some folks to develop a set of technologies around SQL Server Service Broker (SSB) that enhances some of its functionalities and also facilitates the SSB integration with other Microsoft Technologies. The result of that hard work in the first version of SSB Enhancements that contains the following products:
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nQueens record
The OASIS team from INRIA has announced the calculation of the nQueens problem for n = 25 solved with ObjectWeb ProActive (2,207,893,435,808,352 total solutions found). This is a new world computation record, solved with Java, using a grid technology.
The nQueens problem consists to place n queens on a nxn chessboard with that no queens are enable to capture each others.
The computation was achieved in Peer-To-Peer mode (P2P), just using the spare CPU cycles of INRIA desktop machines. As such, the computing platform was highly heterogeneous: Linux, Windows, various JVMs, PII to Xeon bi-pro from 450 Mhz to 3.2 GHz, etc.
The total duration time was slightly over 6 months (4444h 54m 52s 854), starting October 8th until June 11th, using the spare CPU cycles of about 260 machines. The cumulative computing time was over 50 years: 53 years 2 days 16 hours 27 minutes 1 seconds 117 ms! -
WebCast
Yesterday we Javier Mariscal (Two Connect president) and I presented a WebCast about BizTalk 2006 and SQL Server 2005. In the WebCast we show three demos that combine the Service Broker adapter for Biztalk, a Service Broker custom task for SSIS and a Business Rules custom task fro SSIS. Specifically the third demo shows how to combine the SSB custom task for SSIS and the SSB adapter for BizTalk to develop a conversation between SSIS and BizTalk. Nice session, good questions; hopefully the recorded version would be available soon.
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Two Connect WebCast
It is my pleasure to announce that on Friday August 5th Javier Mariscal (Two Connect president) and I will be doing a WebCast about BizTalk Server 2004-2006 and SQL Server 2005. We will present the new Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server 2004-2006, some new SQL Server Integration Services custom tasks as well as integration points between XMLA and BizTalk Server Analysis databases.
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ESB mediation
Nice reflection about the ESB role in SOA.
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SAML article
As a big SAML fan I should recommend this
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JSR 94
This nice article covers the basics of Java Rule Engine (JSR 94)
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Altova XML
This is great news. Now .NET and Java developers can take advantages of the Alotva engines:
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IBM on WSDM
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BEA news
BEA has released to general availability both WebLogic Server 9 and the AquaLogic Service Bus, available for download from BEA's web site. Documentation for both is available on EDocs.
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BEA news
BEA continues releasing new stuff:
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BizUnit
BizUnit 2.0 was released. Congratulations Kevin, cool stuff.
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Business Transactions
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BPMN
Clive Finkelstein writes a nice article about Business Process Modeling Notation. BPMN is absolutely an option to consider representing business process in a easy and Standard way to business analyst. BPMN also abstracts the visual language for the represent the Business Process from executables languages like BPEL4WS
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Xlink
Last call for Xlink 1.1.
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Axis 2
A new version of Apache Axis is now available.
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More on JBI
Ronan Bradley exposes a different position around JBI
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My last article
I would like to thanks to my boss Javier Mariscal for all the corrections made to my last article.
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Don Box on JBI
Don Box has been posted a couple of comments around JBI. I tend to agree with Don in the confusion around EJB and JBI containers.
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Using the WebSphere MQ Transport for SOAP.
By Jesús Rodríguez.
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XML Key Management
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WS-RM for WSE
George Copeland has written a WS-ReliableMessaging implementation for WSE 3.0. Cool stuff!!
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PXE
FiveSight has released its PXE BPEL engine as open source under a combination of the CPL and MIT License.
BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language, and determines how a set of services interacts as a single process.
The release includes side-by-side support for both BPEL4WS 1.1 and an early version of WS-BPEL 2.0. It also has JMX-based administration and management, pluggable persistence, a microkernel-style runtime suitable for standalone operation or embedding within an application server, connected debugging, and a set of commandline tools and Ant tasks for most common operations. -
jBPM
Jboss has released jBPM 3.0, a workflow and BPM engine that enables the creation of business processes that coordinate between people, applications and services. With its modular architecture, JBoss jBPM combines development of workflow applications with a process engine. The JBoss jBPM process designer graphically represents the business process steps in order to facilitate a strong link between the business analyst and the technical developer.
JBoss jBPM includes the following components: Runtime engine as a POJO library, a graphical desiger as an Eclipse plugin, persistence based on hibernate, a web console in JSF, a BPEL extension for orchestration, scheduler for timers, business calendar, and more. -
JBI
IBM and BEA doesn’t vote “yes” for the JBI approval:
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Systinet
Today Systinet releases Systinet Registry 6.0 and Systinet Policy Manager and announces new platform codenamed “Blizzard”, allowing users to create a "blueprint of their SOA".
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CORBA&Java&.NET
News from interop:
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Sun Web Services Registry
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Web Objects
This nice article explains how Apple Web Objects can bridge the gap between WebServices and Databases.
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AquaLogic
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Using XMLA with BizTalk Server 2004.
I have been very busy in the past three weeks working for my Teched presentation. This was my first Teched experience and was fantastic. Then I decided to start blogging about the different topics of my session. Basically my session covers some of the most interesting topics to integrate BizTalk Server 2004 and SQL Server 2005. We presented a BizTalk adapter for SQL Server Service Broker a couple of SQL Servre Integration Services custom tasks to interact with BizTalk and a cool demo about how to use XMLA to query some BizTalk OLAP cubes. I have plans to write a couple of article that covers the most relevant parts of my session. Anyway, the last part of my talk was around XML for Analysis (XMLA) and BizTalk Server 2004.
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Teched 2005
I am this week at Teched 2005 doing a lot of cool stuff. Today at 3 pm I will be speaking with Javier Mariscal (TwoConnect president) about interaction points between SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2004. As part of this session you can see a prototype of a Service Broker Adapter, SSIS custom tasks to execute Business Rules and BizTalk Orchestrations and how to use XMLA to query BAM databases. We also will address other interesting areas around this topic. I hope to see you there.
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XHTML 2.0
The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0.
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XML-RPC
Apache has released the 2.0 version of their XML-RPC library for download. One notable change is the ability to select an HTTP implementation, but the team claims that the most important change is "that the current version will hopefully receive active maintenance, which the previous didn't in the last one or two years."
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Microsoft at Java One
Simon Guest lists some of the interoperability talks at Java One
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MSMQ & Indigo
A new version of MSMQ is available for working with Indigo.
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Web Services at Oracle
Some new Web Services features are available to Oracle developers with new products.
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JBI implementation
Sun has released a preview implementation of JBI. I am very glad to see JBI in action first time
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New BizTalk blog
Michael Woods is now blogging. I have the opportunity to met Mike personally two weeks ago during my days in the Microsoft Campus and is a great person. Will be very nice to have his periodically standpoints about Business Integration.
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WebSphere MQ V6
This nice article from
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SQLCLR
The SQLCLR team has a blog
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Apache Axis
Congrats to Apache team guys:
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XQuery and .Net Frameworks 2.0
Nearly a hundred Microsoft MVP's and many more Microsoft and XML developers have signed a petition urging Microsoft to support XQuery on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey).
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ESB-SOA
Richard Turner has been reflecting around the ESB and SOA concepts.
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BEA news
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WS-Addressing article
Nice article of Steve Vinovski about endpoint references.
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XLink 1.1
The W3C XML Core Working Group has produced a First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 and requests feedback from W3C Members and other interested parties. XLink Version 1.0 was approved as a W3C Recommendation in June 2001.
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WS-* interoperability
Companies like Microsoft, IBM or Systinet among 14 organizations joined together for the first time to demonstrate interoperability of the WS-Security OASIS Standard at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in
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WS-RM
BEA, IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO Software to Submit Web Services ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) Specification to OASIS for Standardization. I would love to see standardization between WS-RM and WS-Realiability.
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WS-Discovery
WS-Discovery specification has been updated.
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JBI
Java Business Integration JSR 208 recently passed the JCP public review ballot. However both IBM and BEA abstained.
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WS-RM news
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BPEL and Java
Nice reading about BPEL and Java written by Matjaz B. Juric.
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JSR-181
These are great news for the J2EE Web Services developers.
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WSDL Binding
The WSDL Binding for WS-Addressing specification has been updated.
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RDDL
Nice comment about Use RDDL instead of XML Schema at the Namespace URI?
Posting to W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group List
Proposal: "Place a RDDL document at each of the namespace URIs defined by WS-Addressing. Provide a 'latest schema' link as well as dated links to the schema. State in the document that the resources (schemas) at the dated links are immutable, the list of dated schemas may grow to incorporate fixes, and the latest schema link will always point to the latest." Justification: "One advantage of RDDL is that it would enable one to discover, through the namespace URI, a number of schemas for the namespace. This is especially interesting when errata are taken into account. The WS-I BP promulgated some fixes to the WSDL 1.1 schema, but since it is also desirable to have a stable document at the namespace URI, it published alternative dated versions with various fixes in them, and pointed to those dated versions from the spec. It might have been simpler and more discoverable to find all the related (dated) schemas through a RDDL document at the namespace URI." -
XRI news
A set of XRI documents are available for public review:
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Rob Howard in ASP.NET
Rob Howard talks about Asp.NET in theserverside.net
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News from the WS interoperability
The Web Service Interoperability Organization (WS-I) of Basic Profile 1.0 and 1.1 fame has just released the first draft of the WS-I B2B profile. It's not in final publication yet (just official first draft).
This is huge because if this becomes a standard we will finally have a set of Web Service standards addressing the unique transaction and asynchronous messaging semantics of the B2B domain.
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Indigo adapter
A prototype of an Indigo adapter for BizTalk Server 2004 is available for download.
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Some news of my life
The past Friday I was awarded with the MVP for BizTalk Server 2004. I would like to thanks a lot of MS guys that help me with my contributions to the BizTalk community in the past year.
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BTS 2004 news
Several BizTalk Server 2004 white papers are now available. You can check the list here…
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ArjunaTS
I am glad to see an implementation of WS-BusinessActivity:
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WSE 2.0 templates for VS.NET
Kirk Evans has blogged about WSE 2.0 Item Templates for Visual Studio .NET 2003
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XML Binary uses cases
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released its evaluation, recommending that W3C produce a standard for binary interchange of XML. Published today as a Working Group Note, XML Binary Characterization is supported by use cases, properties and measurement methodologies. Optimized serialization can improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data
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New Book
Advanced .NET Remoting Second Edition is now available:
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Duplex Contracts
Steve Maine has blogged about Duplex Contracts in Indigo.
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IONA ESB
IONA gives another step forward in the ESB race. Great job!
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BizTalk news
Some new features-papers are available to BizTalk developers:
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P&P WebCasts
A new series of WebCasts about the different applications blocks that forms the Enterprise Library.
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WS-Management
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WSDM
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WS-Addressing joins JCP
JSR 261, Java APIs for XML-based Web Services Addressing, is starting it's work this week. It will define a framework for supporting transport-neutral addressing of Web services based on the specification from W3C WS-Addressing WG. The group is well represented by the major Web services players but we are still accepting additional applications, specially from smaller companies or expert individuals.
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thanks to Erik Leaseburg from Microsoft Premier Services for all the corrections made to my last article.
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Invoking WebSphere MQ Exposed Web Services Using the BizTalk Adapter for MQSeries.
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Indigo videos
FTPOnline has published the Indigo sessions at VSLive. You can check it out here…
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Simon again
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Indigo Contracts
Don Box blogs about Service Contracts in Indigo.
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New WS-* workshop
I am glad to see this:
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Large messages in BTS 2004
Nice comment about how to deal with large messages in BizTalk Server 2004.
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Cω
Dare Obasanjo give us An Overview of Cω.
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Indigo posts
Clement vaster has been blogged about Indigo topics. Among the most interesting you can find: Indigo Simple Messaging and Which serialization control declaration flavor do you like?. Cool stuff.
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XML Beans
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XML Schema 1.1
I am glad to see this:
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Community Server 1.0
Telligent Systems has released version 1.0 of Community Server, an open source ASP.NET application for hosting discussion forums, blogs, and photo galleries.
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SSDL
A new Web Services Description has been released:
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WS-Addressing
The WS-Addressing related specifications have been updated:
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New W3C Standars
The new WD for XQuery, XPath and XSLT are now available:
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released ten Working Drafts for the XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Please see the status section of each document for authorship and change history information. XML Query is an XML-aware programming language that can be optimized to run database-style searches, queries and joins over collections of documents, databases and XML or object repositories. Applications implementing XPath can address the nodes in an XML tree. XSLT 2 allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into other documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive) -
ebXMl registry
ebXML registry 3.0 is now closer of become an OASIS Standard.
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EJB 3.0 draft 2
The second early draft for EJB 3.0 has been released now its composed of two separated documents one for the persistence and one for the rest.
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Reliability specifications
IBM Web Services developer center has published a new article that covers WS-* specifications. This time, Doug Davis covers some aspects of WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Realiability.
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Simon again
The Architecture developer center has published a new article of Simon Guest. Again Simon talks about Web Services interoperability but now in the mainframe environments using NEON Systems ServiceBuilder
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ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ releases now its new version. Some of the new features are:
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Bill Gates talks about interoperability:
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UDDI 3
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SOA interview
David Orchard exposes his opinion about some SOA topics.
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New patterns site
Microsoft provides a new site to the patterns community.
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WSE and Axis interop
Again Simon Guest wrote a nice article about J2EE and .NET WebServices interoperability. Now was the time for Interoperability between Microsoft WSE 2.0 and Apache Axis 1.2 RC2 using a SOAP TCP Channel.
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BEA SOA tool
Wow, today begin my first month in US!!.
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Conversational Web Services
My last article about conversational Web Service interoperability between WebLogic and .NET has been published in MSDN. Again I want to thanks to Simon Guest for his help.
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Starting BizTalk Server 2004 orchestrations using the MessageAgent.
Jesús Rodríguez.
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Software Factories vs MDA
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Messaging patterns
A series of interesting messaging patterns using BizTalk have been available as part of these workspace. It provides templates to implement solutions based on the following patterns:
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BizTalk Server 2004 Labs